Ion Trajectories in Mercury's magnetosphere
Menelaos Sarantos

 Menelaos Sarantos is currently a graduate student at Rice University 
 working with Pat Reiff. He developed a magnetosphere model to be used to 
model Mercury's magnetosphere, and defended his thesis in January. He has
 looked at the effect of the solar wind on Mercury's magnetospheric
 configuration, and has traced photoion trajectories in the magnetosphere
 to determine how many are recycled to the surface, and where they 
 impact.  He is using this information to determine the feedback on the atmosphere.